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Kayla Abramowitz, the Founder and CKO (Chief Kid Officer) of Kayla Cares 4 Kids,<\/em> herself has Crohn\u2019s disease and juvenile arthritis.\u00a0 At 11 years old, after extended hospital stays of her own, she wondered what she could do to help other kids.\u00a0 She was too young to volunteer in children\u2019s hospitals, but she wasn\u2019t too young to start collecting entertainment and educational items to donate to children\u2019s hospitals.\u00a0 Her initial goal was to collect 100 DVDs to donate to a children\u2019s hospital in her home town.\u00a0 A newspaper article went viral, and now, three years later, her non-profit organization has collected and donated over 12,000 items.\u00a0 Her current goal is to deliver DVDs, books, and toys to every children\u2019s hospital in the country.<\/p>\n \u00a0As one nurse manager of a pediatrics intensive care unit put it: \u201cWe are thrilled that Kayla Cares 4 Kids found us!\u00a0 No child likes to be in the hospital, so it is important to do whatever we can to make their stay in the hospital a little more enjoyable.\u00a0 It also makes the nurses happy to be able to provide diversion activities for the kids while they are hospitalized.\u201d\u00a0 In Kayla\u2019s words: \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m able to make such a difference in kids\u2019 lives while they\u2019re staying in the hospital.\u00a0 I think it means the world to them, and I know it means the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0When delivering donations to hospitals, Kayla is joined by her mother, father, and two brothers.\u00a0 \u201cSome people go to the beach on a holiday, but we go to a hospital to deliver items, and it makes us all feel good,\u201d said Kayla\u2019s father. \u201cTo know that you\u2019re helping someone else when they\u2019re going through something that we can relate to ourselves, well that makes a difference.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0Kayla Abramowitz was named the National Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 Go Kayla!\u00a0 Hopefully Kayla not only wins our hearts, but inspires us all towards thoughtful acts of kindness towards those less fortunate than ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"